Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can scarcely believe this ! |
| 2 | ‘ I can well understand that thinking of your daughter in a stranger 's house is not easy . |
| 3 | ‘ I can well believe that , ’ said Melissa . |
| 4 | I can well believe that . |
| 5 | ‘ I can well imagine that . |
| 6 | And yet it also seems that er I , I can also make this statement . |
| 7 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 8 | I can also keep alive inside me an awareness of the delicate balance , looking out for an opportunity to support independent initiative within whatever restrictions are imposed . |
| 9 | ‘ I make big scenes for fun , because I adore drama , but I can also wait ten years , wait for the right moment to come . |
| 10 | I am sympathetic to your case that this policy should be extended to unpowered craft on all rivers although I can also see some problems . |
| 11 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 12 | I can also see another one just around the corner . ’ |
| 13 | I can also say that morale in these teams , at the time I had contact with the projects appeared to be considerably higher than in comparable teams in more orthodox services . |
| 14 | If I can just open those up and have a couple of samples of . |
| 15 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 16 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 17 | However , if I can just shift these mirrors right ah , done it ! |
| 18 | Right , if I can just give this shirt to you , Annette . |
| 19 | I figured that if I can just get involved in whatever 's going on , in some sort of work that helps people … ’ |
| 20 | I can just see both components with × 20 , but there is nothing remarkable about them . |
| 21 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 22 | Per perhaps I can just say one point . |
| 23 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 24 | Ah Ricky did you see the state of our trainers ? er ah Richard it 's fucked up , just gon na go over there it 's alright Ricky I 'll do Rick I can just tear this off , but I like the noise on the thing |
| 25 | I can just imagine that . |
| 26 | T : I can just imagine all those old rappers going — ( makes vomiting noise ) — ‘ This is hippyshit , man ’ . |
| 27 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 28 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 29 | God can not be the exclusive Father and I can not ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus . |
| 30 | But of course I can not leave such a place open to — anyone . ’ |